Genesis 32:30

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So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”

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  • Num 12:8 : 8 With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
  • Gen 16:13 : 13 So Hagar named the LORD who spoke to her,“You are the God who sees me,” for she said,“Here I have seen one who sees me!”
  • Exod 24:10-11 : 10 and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself. 11 But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
  • Deut 5:24 : 24 You said,“The LORD our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.
  • Exod 33:19-23 : 19 And the LORD said,“I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will proclaim the LORD by name before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.” 20 But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.” 21 The LORD said,“Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock. 22 When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and will cover you with my hand while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen.”
  • Exod 33:14 : 14 And the LORD said,“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
  • Gen 28:19 : 19 He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.
  • Deut 34:10 : 10 No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the LORD face to face.
  • Judg 6:22-23 : 22 When Gideon realized that it was the LORD’s angel, he said,“Oh no! Sovereign LORD! I have seen the LORD’s angel face to face!” 23 The LORD said to him,“You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”
  • Judg 8:8 : 8 He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had.
  • Judg 8:17 : 17 He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city’s men.
  • Judg 13:21-22 : 21 The LORD’s angel did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the LORD’s angel. 22 Manoah said to his wife,“We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!”
  • 1 Kgs 12:25 : 25 Jeroboam Makes Golden Calves Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.
  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
  • Gal 1:6 : 6 Occasion of the Letter I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel–
  • Eph 1:17 : 17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,
  • Col 1:15 : 15 The Supremacy of Christ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,
  • 2 Tim 1:10 : 10 but now made visible through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has broken the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel!
  • Heb 11:27 : 27 By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

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    24So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

    25When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

    26Then the man said,“Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.”“I will not let you go,” Jacob replied,“unless you bless me.”

    27The man asked him,“What is your name?” He answered,“Jacob.”

    28“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”

    29Then Jacob asked,“Please tell me your name.”“Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.

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    31The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.

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    5There he said to them,“I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.

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    9God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.

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    8“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought,“then the other camp will be able to escape.”

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    15Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

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    16Then Jacob woke up and thought,“Surely the LORD is in this place, but I did not realize it!”

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    11In the dream the angel of God said to me,‘Jacob!’‘Here I am!’ I replied.

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    2When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.

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    20But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”

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    6He added,“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

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    7He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

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    3Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”

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    13So Hagar named the LORD who spoke to her,“You are the God who sees me,” for she said,“Here I have seen one who sees me!”

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    23Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen.”

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    13Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.

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    29I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night,‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’